Damn... just found this video again. You could not trust me with the hot blond girls body, even in VR.

Spleenal

They've invented the squid thing off of Strange Days. At last we may all experience a short doomed relationship with Juliette Lewis.

elpolloloco

Lets try masturbation now.

Tyler AitchKay

I don't need to VR myself into a women's body to understand what a woman is like - I have an emotion called empathy.

Gene Kaufman

What's up with the Steve Reich music? I'm sorry but that's the only thing that's on my mind after watching this...

joevsyou

assuming this is the beginning of their project. With the riftThey are able to take make or take 3d images of any item and literally place it in a area

Azariel_z

yeah, but they need to agreed to do the same moves, so...no point on this, not even an experiment...

Emu

They move slowly enough to automatically adapt to their views motions. Imagine you see your arm move, but your real arm isn't moving at all, so you try to emulate what you are seeing. You have a bit of a lag, I guess, but the slower the motion, the lesser the lag and the better the adaptation.

From a psychological and sociological point of view it is a really nice experiment. Until we can really simulate virtual "gender swaps" this is the best we can get.

Perspective, that's why girls always take selfies from a high angle... It makes them look better.

Prometheus

oh now be careful, you won't want dozens of other people coming to rant at you for talking about old people!

Xankar

Seems pretty pointless :L what are they trying to accomplish?

DapperNathaniel

From the article: "Through out this experiment, we aim to investigate issues like Gender Identity, Queer Theory, feminist technoscience, Intimacy and Mutual Respect. " Basically, it's an experiment in seeing from another gender's perspective, and how they see themselves.

Xankar

What i'm getting at is the fact that the only thing they're "accomplishing" is letting you look down at someone else's body from a camera...

The Magnificent Newtboy

I think its the whole someone else's shoes idea that they are getting at but in a severely limited way... On the other hand if you ignore the scienceish part its a pretty cool/weird idea and would be quite interesting to experience.